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Images about Milan

23 images from works
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo: he gives alms to the plague-victims in Milan. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo: with a rope around his neck, he kneels before the Cross in the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.
  • Astronomy: Napoleon Bonaparte listening to an astronomer in Milan. Engraving.
  • Torture and execution of alleged plague carriers in Milan, 1630. Engraving.
  • Ospedale Maggiore, Milan: three windows carved with relief sculpture. Photograph by Alinari, 18--.
  • Ospedale Maggiore, Milan: a window carved with relief sculpture. Photograph by Alinari, 18--.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, weeps blood while praying for the departure of plague from Milan in 1576. Engraving by G. Edelinck after Charles Le Brun.
  • "Due galli SIDA" tomato puree : highly concentrated without water ... / S.I.D.A.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo administering communion to victims of the plague in Milan of 1576. Line engraving by F. de Poilly after P. Mignard.
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Works from the collections

90 works

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    Processo agli untori : Milano 1630, cronaca e atti giudiziari in edizione integrale / a cura di Giuseppe Farinelli e Ermanno Paccagnini.

    | Date: 1988
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    Giovanni Battista Monteggia (Laveno 1762 - -Milano 1815) e la chiurgia milanese del suo tempo : atti del Convegno Internazionale, Laveno, 1. dicembre 2012 / a cura di Giuseppe Armocida, Andrea Frigo, Giuseppe Musumeci.

    | Date: [2014]
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    Le tigne tricofitiche nella Provincia di Milano : note cliniche, microscopiche e culturali / Carlo Bottelli.

    Botteli, Carlo. | Date: 1913
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    L'Ospedale Maggiore di Milano e la storia del "Perdono" / [Giuseppe Castelli].

    Castelli, Giuseppe. | Date: 1939
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    Milano scientifica, 1875-1924 / a cura di Elena Canadelli e Paola Zocchi.

    | Date: 2008
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Related topics

Milan Polyclinic
Plague
Charles Borromeo
Hospitals
Plague
17th century
19th-20th centuries
Hospitals
Italy
History, 18th Century

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